Game Freak has announced it's introducing an optional 4-day work week for some of its employees. The Game Freak 4-day work week will allow eligible employees to take an extra day off a week to tend…
April 26, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
You can now use Pokemon music and sounds from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl in your videos and creative content thanks to the launch of the Pokemon DP Sound Library -- as long as it's non-commercial.…
February 2, 2022 | 02:12 EST
With Pokemon Legends Arceus just released, fans are already compiling their knowledge into tools to help other players, most notably a Pokemon Legends: Arceus interactive map. The website Arceus.gg…
January 28, 2022 | 11:56 EST
The Pokemon: Bidoof's Big Stand animation will premiere on YouTube tomorrow and a new Pokemon Legends: Arceus trailer is now available in English. The Pokemon Company has a lot of cool stuff in the…
January 10, 2022 | 01:56 EST
A brand new Pokemon Legends: Arceus trailer has dropped, revealing plenty of new info about the game. New special types of Pokemon have been revealed, as well as new information about the Jubilife…
September 28, 2021 | 10:39 EDT
Nintendo just revealed a whole lot of new information about the upcoming open-world RPG Pokemon Legends: Arceus, as well as the Gen 4 remakes Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Here's everything we…
August 18, 2021 | 10:01 EDT
Pokemon Legends: Arceus release date has been announced as January 28, 2022, with Pokemon Shining Pearl and Pokemon Brilliant Diamond release date set for November 19, 2021. The release dates were…
May 26, 2021 | 09:55 EDT
Calling all Pokemon experts, Tencent is hiring! Yep, you read that right. The Chinese-based company recently posted several listings for Pokemon-related jobs in the Asian marketplace. According to…
December 18, 2020 | 09:42 EST
The competitive Pokemon scene is often unsung when it comes to sanctioned tournament play, though the past five years have slowly changed that aspect. Official tournament formats like the Video Game…
November 25, 2020 | 07:14 EST
A 2018 beta version of Pokemon Sword has been leaked. The beta build includes Pokemon that weren't present in the finished game and also shows content that was eventually cut during the development…
October 22, 2020 | 08:42 EDT
Pokemon Crown Tundra leaks have been revealed, showing off some Legendary pokemon with a new look. It looks like Pokemon Sword and Shield's next expansion pass is going to have a lot of surprises!…
October 20, 2020 | 02:07 EDT
A pet fish in Japan was able to discover a glitch in Pokemon Sapphire that no one has ever seen since the games launch 18 years ago. No, you did read that correctly, it was a fish who found it. In…
October 9, 2020 | 10:31 EDT
Pokemon Sword & Shield: The Crown Tundra will release on October 22, 2020, with a bundle containing the base game(s) and their expansion passes releasing on November 6, 2020. The Crown Tundra…
September 29, 2020 | 09:35 EDT
If there is one company in the gaming world that always generates interest in their inner workings, it is Game Freak, the creators of the Pokemon franchise. Part of this goes into the long-term…
September 28, 2020 | 10:40 EDT
Fan's of video games, or any form of media for that matter, are a creative bunch. Many of them often share those creations with the world, showing their passion and dedication to their craft for…
September 18, 2020 | 09:45 EDT
The competitive scene of Pokemon Sword and Shield is getting a shakeup that is unprecedented for the VGC scene. Yesterday they announced the rules for the Series 6 of ranked battles for the 2020…
August 21, 2020 | 09:43 EDT
Little Town Hero, formerly a Nintendo Switch exclusive, will be released on Steam on June 30, which is just under 2 weeks from now. The game will also be as a physical edition to the PlayStation 4…
June 17, 2020 | 10:03 EDT
The Pokemon Company International and Nintendo have announced the release date for the first part of the Pokemon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass, The Isle of Armor, which will release on June 17. The…
June 2, 2020 | 10:12 EDT
On the official Pokemon website, it was announced yesterday that Galarian Versions of Mr. Mime, Ponyta, Corsola, and Meowth have been made available. They will come with a variety of items and also…
May 22, 2020 | 10:35 EDT
There have been a lot of Pokemon games over the years. Even the "first" game ended up having four distinct versions (Pokemon Red and Blue, Green, and eventuallyYellow), but you may be surprised to…
April 13, 2020 | 05:03 EDT
The Pokemon Day Mythical Pokemon has finally been revealed. Zarude is a Dark/Grass Pokemon with the Leaf Guard ability and the newest addition to Pokemon Sword and Shield. Check out Zarude in action…
February 27, 2020 | 09:48 EST
Nintendo has finally announced Pokémon Home's release will be sometime this February. The long-awaited Pokémon Home service will allow you to move Pokémon between compatible games. Pokémon Home will…
January 29, 2020 | 08:25 EST
The 2nd online competition for Pokemon Sword and Shield is coming at the end of January and will feature all the brand new Pokemon introduced in the Galar region. The competition, titled Galar…
January 13, 2020 | 04:30 EST
With all of the Wild Area events being touted for Pokemon Sword and Shield, we often forget that the games Mystery Gift system is seeing some distribution as well. Mystery Gift is an old mechanic,…
January 13, 2020 | 08:30 EST
The latest Pokemon Direct revealed a ton of information for the first-ever DLC expansions for the Pokemon franchise. Instead of a new version of the game, as was traditional for the handheld titles…
January 11, 2020 | 02:30 EST
Pokemon Sword and Shield fans will certainly have something to look forward to in the next couple of days — a brand-new Pokemon Direct will be arriving on January 9, 2020. "Tune in on 1/9 at 6:30 a.…
January 7, 2020 | 12:34 EST
Pokémon Sword and Shield will be running a Shiny Magikarp New Year's event beginning December 31 through January 3. The event will allow players to have a much greater chance of encountering a Shiny…
January 1, 2020 | 08:00 EST
Pokemon is a big part of almost any kid's gaming childhood, and its impact on the gaming industry as a whole is immense. Whether it is the anime or the plethora of video games, you definitely wanted…
December 30, 2019 | 11:30 EST
Many pieces of content, for one reason or another, do not make it to the final build of a game's end product. This last Thursday, an anonymous user posted a link on 4chan's /vp/ board, containing…
December 23, 2019 | 09:00 EST
The competitive scene of Pokemon Sword and Shield is beginning to take shape, but one competitive body has decided to ban one of the newest features in the game from competitive play. Smogon, the…
December 17, 2019 | 04:00 EST
The Pokemon VGC 2020 rules have been revealed. Unsurprisingly, this is also the first year that the Pokemon Video Game Championships will be shifting towards Pokemon Sword and Shield as the game of…
December 6, 2019 | 09:30 EST
In a video posted to the Official Pokemon Youtube channel, it was revealed that Gigantamax Snorlax will appear in Dynamax raids in Pokemon Sword and Shield starting December 4th and ending in early…
November 27, 2019 | 01:00 EST
The Pokemon Global Link — an online service previously used for Pokemon titles — will be shutting down in its entirety sometime in February 2020. If you're unfamiliar with the Pokemon Global Link,…
November 26, 2019 | 01:00 EST
Lawyers at The Pokemon Company are trying to catch 'em all. In this case, "'em all" refers to a group of unknown defendants who leaked images of Pokemon Sword and Shield before it released. The John…
November 25, 2019 | 08:15 EST
Looks like recent controversies haven't massively hurt sales of Pokemon Sword and Shield. The latest games in the long-running critter-collecting RPG franchise have managed to rack up 6 million sales…
November 22, 2019 | 10:00 EST
There appear to be two different types of Pokemon Sword and Shield shiny Pokemon. The dedicated fans who have been working hard to get the special sprite recolors of their favorite 'mons have…
November 21, 2019 | 10:30 EST
It's always fun to have some weird Pokemon. Such is the case with Pokemon Sword & Shield, which features Galarian versions of some Pokemon. We now know which Pokemon you can get the Galarian…
November 20, 2019 | 10:00 EST
Streaming media service Roku is releasing a fix for a known issue which causes its devices to crash when you're playing Pokémon Sword and Shield. The update is rolling out to all the company's…
November 20, 2019 | 09:00 EST
Despite strong opinions over the latest entries in the Pokemon series, this dynamax of a franchise earns the big bucks, according to the latest from the UK boxed charts. Pokemon Sword and Shield…
November 19, 2019 | 10:00 EST
Every Pokémon game has their own exclusive list of Pokémon to catch, and Sword and Shield are no exceptions. Serebii.net, arguably the singular authority on information regarding the Pokémon…
November 15, 2019 | 09:00 EST
I want the biggest Pokémon. I know what you are thinking, but shut up, it's not big enough. I need bigger ones. A new mechanic in Pokémon Sword & Shield lets Pokémon grow to an unheard-of height…
November 15, 2019 | 08:00 EST
Update: In what was originally believed to be an issue with Pokemon Sword and Shield it turns out that this issue is related to a problem with the Nintendo Switch OS itself. While many who play games…
November 15, 2019 | 06:45 EST
We're now less than 48 hours from the release of new titles Pokemon Sword and Shield. This Pokemon title is the first mainline release for the Nintendo Switch and the beginning of the 8th generation…
November 13, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Pokemon Sword and Shield is days away from release, but now that the game has been unofficially seen in the wild, Sword and Shield has finally gotten the long-awaited datamine treatment. As is…
November 13, 2019 | 10:30 EST
Back when the first Pokemon games came out for the Game Boy, players could collect, trade, and battle 151 unique creatures. With every main entry in the series, that number has only increased. Heck,…
November 10, 2019 | 03:55 EST
Some new Pokemon Sword and Shield items have been announced via a press release and trailer and it looks like the trainer experience is getting a serious upgrade for the latest version of the game…
November 7, 2019 | 08:00 EST
With Pokémon Sword and Shield only two weeks away from release, the season is peak time for leakers to start revealing in-game secrets. Last generation, with Pokémon Sun and Moon, players were able…
November 4, 2019 | 10:30 EST
Long-running critter catcher Pokemon is one of the most successful IPs of all time. Though the basic formula remains unchanged, the series continues to add features and improve on it. Now in its…
October 17, 2019 | 01:49 EDT